iVenture Accelerator, Week 1

A 9-week pilot program for aspiring student entrepreneurs. One small step for a bigger and brighter future.

This summer, I will be part of the iVenture Accelerator together with 13 other startups run by 36 student fellows from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program will be providing $10,000 in funding and $2,500 for each team member so that students could work on their startups full-time this summer. It will also provide the much needed mentorship from industry experts and thought leaders to further develop the students’ ideas.

The iVenture Accelerator 2015 will be the first time the program will be offered to aspiring student entrepreneurs. It will be consisted of the following startups:

• Blink
  • Mayank Kale
  • Katarina Dobrowski
  • Kyle Hirschfelder
• Corvae
  • Julie Polaski
  • Ryan Brown
  • Andrew Simpson
• FlipWord
  • Joseph Milla
  • Thomas Reese
• I-Cubed
  • Chandrasekaran Jayaramam
  • Kinyetta Nance
  • Adam Burns
  • Mudassir Khan
• Kofman Technologies
  • Juliana Snarski
  • Sriram Raghu
• MakerGirl
  • Caitlyn Deegan
  • Charlotte Israel
• Muscle Metrics
  • Helom Berhane
  • Andree Sahakian
  • Runshi Gu
  • Kanishka Wijayagunaratne
• The Mouve
  • Uduimoh Umolu
  • Samuel Ojogbo
  • Marco Fabrega
• Psyonic
  • Aadeel Akhtar
  • Daniel Gonzales
  • Hafsa Siddiqui
• Resdin Technologies
  • Aaron Mann
  • Jacob Waterman
  • Robert Hwang
• Share A Chair
  • David Kirby
  • Kushal Parikh
  • Neal Larkin
• Spotlight
  • Hafiz Banire
  • Kyra Mitchell
• Swimable
  • Chelsea Fry
  • Krystyna Orlowski

^{Prof. Raj Echambadi, PhD, the Associate Dean of Outreach and Engagement and a James F. Towey Fellow from the College of Business gave a talk about business strategies that we could use in our startups.}

I will be posting an update every week about this fellowship. I’m really excited about this and our startup. So, stay tuned!